Third

Session, 47th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2014

BILL 4

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

MENTAL HEALTH CARE

AND TREATMENT ACT

Received and Read the First Time .................................................................................................

Second Reading .................................................................................................................................

Committee ..........................................................................................................................................

Third Reading .....................................................................................................................................

Royal Assent ......................................................................................................................................

HONOURABLE

SUSAN SULLIVAN

Minister of Health and Community Services

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would amend the Mental Health Care and Treatment Act to

clarify to whom a rights

advisor may offer advice and assistance;

add a requirement for a rights

advisor to contact a person who is an involuntary patient or who is under a

community treatment order and his or her representative within 10 days of the

first meeting between the rights advisor and the person; and

remove the requirement for a

community treatment order to contain an undertaking by the person who is the subject

of the order.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE MENTAL HEALTH CARE AND

TREATMENT ACT

Analysis

1. S.14 Amdt.

Functions of rights advisor

2. S.41 Amdt.

Form and contents of community treatment order

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL2006 cM-9.1

as amended

1. (1) Paragraph 14(1)(

a) of the Mental Health Care and Treatment Act is

repealed and the following substituted:

(

a) a person who is an involuntary patient;

(2) Paragraph 14(2)(

a) of the Act is repealed and

the following substituted:

(

a) meet in person or by other means as soon as

possible with a person referred to in paragraph (1)(

a) or (

b) and in any event within

24 hours of the person becoming an involuntary patient or the issuance of a

community treatment order and meet after that at the request of the person

referred to in paragraph (1)(

a) or (

b) or as required by this Act or the regulations;

(3) Subsection 14(2) of the Act is amended by

adding immediately after paragraph (

a) the following:

(a.1) contact a person referred to in paragraph (1)(

a) or (

b) and his or her representative within 10 days of the meeting referred to in

paragraph (

a) unless the person or the representative contacts the rights

advisor first;

2. Subsection 41(2) of the Act is amended by

adding the word "and" at the end of paragraph (

f) and by repealing paragraph

(g).

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